Anonymous
05/19/2025 07:51
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
I live in the South (smaller city) and have run into NESCAC grads both socially and professionally over the years. With the population shifting South and West, this is going to become more common.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 07:27
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
I admit that I did not read all 10 pages of this thread, so if someone has already posted this, well sorry. I think that I would coach her to say the following if people made a comment about not having heard of her school, "I know. I had not heard of it before I started looking into colleges in the XXX field (or small colleges in the NE...) and I feel so lucky to have discovered it! I just fell in love with it when I visited; it just felt like home and has a great XXX program." Done! Meet any questions or comments with enthusiasm and she can turn the whole conversation around! Over time, she will start to believe this narrative too! She has going to have to seal with naysayers her whole life, and I have found that if you meet a negative or sometimes just uninformed comment with enthusiasm, you can turn the whole situation around. I hope she has a wonderful first year in the fall! Do not let them get her down!
Anonymous
05/19/2025 07:18
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.
I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.
Im from DC and never heard of it.
But this is more prevalent in 2025. Not everyone goes on to Ivies and national universities anymore.
What an odd comment…the Ivy schools enroll maybe 5% more students than in the 1980s, yet their acceptance rates have plummeted during that time period.
So…of course very few kids ever enrolled…but the number applying has increased by like 5X.
So, in fact in the year 2025 far more kids know about these schools than in the past.
Same kind of things can be said about national universities as well.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 07:03
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The higher the SES, the more likely a person will know of these schools. It's not just about whether a person grew up with money, it's about whether a person was exposed to elite educational circles. Frankly, I would not care about the people who have never heard of these NESCAC schools - they are not going to be the ones who will be influencing her future.
This is only true if she never leaves academia.
I'm an attorney, and it's absolutely true depending on your firm.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 04:27
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.
I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.
LOL. If they haven't heard of it consider what it says about them.
it says nothing about them. what rando out there will have heard of colby, bates, bowdoin? these are objectively small relatively unknown schools
Anonymous
05/19/2025 03:12
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
My kid went to Carleton. Most have never heard of it.
It’s fine. They are fine with it.
It’s fine. They are fine with it.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 02:51
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The higher the SES, the more likely a person will know of these schools. It's not just about whether a person grew up with money, it's about whether a person was exposed to elite educational circles. Frankly, I would not care about the people who have never heard of these NESCAC schools - they are not going to be the ones who will be influencing her future.
This is only true if she never leaves academia.
BS my husband’s family is generational massive wealth from Florida.
Everyone goes to UF or you don’t get your trust if you are a male.
Well that was till Destantis but I digress my MiL is highly educated she wouldn’t know most of those schools . She’s a Harvard graduate. Her family is from Boston. She also came from generational wealth.
Old money does not equate to NESCAC schools . New money sure old establishment wealth no.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 02:44
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you care about what some dumb MAGA rube in the south thinks OP? Every year, southern states rank in the bottom tier for education.
Such a beautiful illustration of the DCUM mentality.
NP. It's true. Southerners are poor and uneducated on average. They also score poorly on standardized tests and are more obese than their northern counterparts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
I love that line and find it so amusing when it's employed right back at you, regarding some issue you "feel" strongly about.[/quote
You may be forced to swallow your words one day if your kid moves to the South for a job opportunity or spouse. Signed, Transplanted, reformed Northerner who has been humbled by the kindness and talent and intellect of their Southern friends and colleagues.
Utter BS
Red states in the south are clearly unintelligent the keep electing the same crap getting them nothing but the politicians make tons of money off of them with shady deals etc.
GA reelected MTG, Texas elected Tiny Tinderholt 5 times married DV pos, Paxton ….
The south is uneducated
Athe south has zero upward mobility for low income people.
The south is full of Bible thumping people who never read a Bible
Anonymous
05/19/2025 02:28
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
It's ok OP. My daughter was asked, why are you going to out of state for a state school when we have a perfectly good one here? She goes to UChicago.
Anonymous
05/19/2025 00:39
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.
I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.
Im from DC and never heard of it.
But this is more prevalent in 2025. Not everyone goes on to Ivies and national universities anymore.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 23:27
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
I went to an Ivy and there were plenty of people where I grew up who had never heard of it.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 22:21
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:The higher the SES, the more likely a person will know of these schools. It's not just about whether a person grew up with money, it's about whether a person was exposed to elite educational circles. Frankly, I would not care about the people who have never heard of these NESCAC schools - they are not going to be the ones who will be influencing her future.
This is only true if she never leaves academia.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 22:05
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you care about what some dumb MAGA rube in the south thinks OP? Every year, southern states rank in the bottom tier for education.
Such a beautiful illustration of the DCUM mentality.
NP. It's true. Southerners are poor and uneducated on average. They also score poorly on standardized tests and are more obese than their northern counterparts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
I also ignore the demographic makeup of other parts of the country to make my (classist and racist) points. You seriously sound so uneducated making this point, which I guess I should expect from someone quoting Ben Shapiro.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 22:01
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you care about what some dumb MAGA rube in the south thinks OP? Every year, southern states rank in the bottom tier for education.
Such a beautiful illustration of the DCUM mentality.
NP. It's true. Southerners are poor and uneducated on average. They also score poorly on standardized tests and are more obese than their northern counterparts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
I love that line and find it so amusing when it's employed right back at you, regarding some issue you "feel" strongly about.[/quote
You may be forced to swallow your words one day if your kid moves to the South for a job opportunity or spouse. Signed, Transplanted, reformed Northerner who has been humbled by the kindness and talent and intellect of their Southern friends and colleagues.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 21:57
Subject: No one has heard of DDs college
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you care about what some dumb MAGA rube in the south thinks OP? Every year, southern states rank in the bottom tier for education.
Such a beautiful illustration of the DCUM mentality.
NP. It's true. Southerners are poor and uneducated on average. They also score poorly on standardized tests and are more obese than their northern counterparts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
I love that line and find it so amusing when it's employed right back at you, regarding some issue you "feel" strongly about.